# Movies you've seen recently (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [September 29, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906 "2014-09-29T21:53:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 200
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3994 "2022-04-15T16:14:45Z")
“The banshee! _The banshee!_” > [@aceplace57](#): > > _Time After Time_ 1979 TCM > > Malcolm McDowall and Mary Steenburgen were excellent in this movie. Malcom’s take on HG Wells is what I expected. A brilliant man that adapts quickly to 1979. Steenburgen always creates unique and interesting characters. David Warner is very good as the crazed killer. > > I highly recommend _Time After Time_. Exciting story that makes good use of time travel. This movie was in heavy rotation on HBO in the late Seventies, when we first got cable, and I watched it a _lot_. It’s one of the few movies in his career in which Malcolm M. played the good guy. I should probably see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2022, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3995 "2022-04-15T16:19:01Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Wow…we had the same 1960-era nightmares! How did you feel about Darby O’Gill and the Little People? 🙂 Terrifying! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uIT_ov0lOXo/hqdefault.jpg "Darby O'Gill and the Little People - WTF fiddle scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIT_ov0lOXo) I stepped on a lot of little people after seeing that film! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3996 "2022-04-16T21:33:29Z")
**X** Disappointing. It was OK, but I found nothing about it particularly bold, original, or all that interesting. I have a question, perhaps one that will reveal my lack of understanding. I think I understand and my question is reasonable, though. Why are the elderly couple played by young(er) actors in old-person makeup? In fact, the main old lady is also the main protagonist girl, I think(???). Is there a point to this? I heard they are making a prequel, but my streaming copy did not have the trailer for it that apparently screened in theaters as a post-credit scene. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3997 "2022-04-16T21:39:06Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > How did you feel about Darby O’Gill and the Little People? 🙂 That creepy horse-drawn hearse was in my nightmares for years. I just watched _Violet_, Justine Bateman’s directorial debut. It looks like a first movie, but it kept my interest. Good performances. Not a movie for those who need a body count, car chases or a lot of blood in their movies. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3998 "2022-04-16T22:21:47Z")
I watched Judd Apatow’s pandemic Netflix comedy, **The Bubble** , last night. For its all-star cast, I found it pretty dull and unfunny. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/3999 "2022-04-17T00:48:20Z")
Watched _Everything Everywhere All At Once_ with my friend today. I thoroughly enjoyed it, really, really good movie. It manages to be thrilling, funny, confusing, suspenseful, heartfelt, and downright silly, all at once. Incredible fight choreography. And welcome back to acting, Ke Huy Quan. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4000 "2022-04-17T02:00:31Z")
**The Shawshank Redemption** - streams on Netflix I haven’t seen this in 15 years or so and just so you know, it completely holds up and is indeed and excellent movie. I’ve never seen it on a large HD tv and it was great to see it this way. It really is one of the best Stephen King adaptations. If you can suspend your disbelief some, it still delivers a powerful and emotions impact. It’s a shame Frank Darabont doesn’t do more movies. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4001 "2022-04-17T03:45:57Z")
Drive My Car. Winner Academy Award Best Foreign Film. Streaming on HBOMAX. I didn’t realize it was 3 hours 20 minutes when I started it. The section that happens before the opening credits could have been a short movie itself! For a second I had just thought it was and that it was an abrupt end to an odd little thing … Obviously a movie that takes its time to build its characters and relationships. Not for everyone but by the end I could see myself watching it again. Maybe educate myself on Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya first. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2022, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4002 "2022-04-17T13:46:51Z")
**Metal Lords** (Netflix) - coming of age friends are tired of being picked on, one gets a girlfriend, a falling out happens, adversity is overcome and a grand finale happens. You’ve seen this movie when it was called Angus Napoleon Dynamite Stoned Age. Still, it was cute. There were plenty of cameos from heavy metal musicians I adored in my formative years in the 90’s and it was chalked full of, ‘guess this song’ moments. It was fun and I laughed out loud a few times, but I couldn’t give it 4 stars. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4003 "2022-04-18T19:20:45Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Watched _Everything Everywhere All At Once_ with my friend today. I thoroughly enjoyed it, really, really good movie. It manages to be thrilling, funny, confusing, suspenseful, heartfelt, and downright silly, all at once. Incredible fight choreography. And welcome back to acting, Ke Huy Quan. I just heard from a friend about that. It sounds pretty cool! > [@Mahaloth](#): > > **The Shawshank Redemption** - streams on Netflix > > I haven’t seen this in 15 years or so and just so you know, it completely holds up and is indeed and excellent movie… I saw it once and liked it well enough, but have long been puzzled why it ends up on so many folks’ Greatest Movie Ever lists. Wasn’t nearly that good IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4004 "2022-04-21T15:36:18Z")
We decided to watch some Hitchcock films to pass the time. Saw Strangers on a Train, which was great, but then last night we watched “Young and Innocent”, which was just awful. It was a 1937 effort, but by no means his first film. A cast of people you never heard of, and a plot that was beyond stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4005 "2022-04-21T18:32:12Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We decided to watch some Hitchcock films to pass the time. Saw Strangers on a Train, which was great, but then last night we watched “Young and Innocent”, which was just awful. It was a 1937 effort, but by no means his first film. A cast of people you never heard of, and a plot that was beyond stupid We tried Jamaica Inn once from Hitchcock and it was terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4006 "2022-04-21T18:50:31Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Saw Strangers on a Train, which was great Whenever things go sideways, I always silently hope a toothless carny will step in and say, “I can handle it!”. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4007 "2022-04-21T19:37:12Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > We tried Jamaica Inn once from Hitchcock and it was terrible. An opinion shared by the director, who famously disliked directing period pictures and had a particularly difficult time with Charles Laughton on this picture. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4008 "2022-04-21T19:54:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > last night we watched “Young and Innocent”, which was just awful. It was a 1937 effort, but by no means his first film. A cast of people you never heard of, and a plot that was beyond stupid. Is that the one with the famous looooong zoom shot, over a crowded ball room floor, onto the bandstand, and close up on the drummer’s eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4009 "2022-04-21T19:55:56Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Is that the one with the famous looooong zoom shot, over a crowded ball room floor, onto the bandstand, and close up on the drummer’s eyes? Yes, and the entire band is in blackface for some idiotic reason. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4010 "2022-04-21T20:03:20Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > An opinion shared by the director, who famously disliked directing period pictures and had a particularly difficult time with Charles Laughton on this picture. He also thought Rebecca was not a real movie of his, but it is really great. They just did a new Rebecca on Netflix and while it is closer to the plot of the book(also great, by the way), it is a worse movie. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4011 "2022-04-21T20:19:54Z")
[It is a pretty cool shot, though.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PrqZhrMDz8) ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4012 "2022-04-21T20:55:04Z")
Just watched _Happy Death Day_ this morning. Yes, it’s a cheesy horror movie, but I actually thought it was very well done for what it was. The actors were all at least competent, and the lead was quite good. There’s an enormous debt to _Groundhog’s Day_ but it’s acknowledged in a line near the end of the film. My only quibble is that I figured out who the murderer was (and their motive) by the first “death.” Still, a well-paced entertaining little film without too much gore if you’re sensitive to that. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906/4013 "2022-04-21T21:43:43Z")
Quite apart from the blackface issue, I’m also bothered by the fact that the “drummer man” isn’t remotely playing what we’re hearing. Put a little fucking effort in, would ya? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=199) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-youve-seen-recently-part-1/699906.md?page=201)